St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-05
UNDER SADI-CARNOT.
How the French Look Upon Sat
urday's Election.

urday's Election.
PARIS. Dee. 4.-PreSident Sadi-CarnOt
was formally installed in the Elysee
palace this afternoon and later received
visits from eX-President Grevy, NJ. Rou-
vier. President Peytral, of the budget
committee, and other leading pOliti-
clans. The president stated that it was
his intention. after the new ministry
was formed. to at once close the
present session of parliament until
after the coming senatorial elections.
The ministry have formally rendered
their designations, and President Sadi-
CarnOt has requested them to remain in
Office for the present for the dispatch of
public business. The papal nunciO has
received Instructions from the Vatican
to pay an early visit TO the president
and to establish friendly relations at
the outset with the new administration
by explicitly declaring the good will of
the holy see towards France. The air
of NJ. Sadi-CaTnot is reserved and
slightly distant.
HE DID NOT CANVASS
for a single vote. When asked whether
he would become candidate, he re-
piled: Yes. on condition that | shall
not have to ask for votes, and shall not
depend upon mOnarchical votes. If it
should he found that there are not
enough Republican votes, l will.
if returned, regard my election
as void" When elected, he
said to his children: ut
will GO hard with me to quit this famil-
lar house and 60 to live in that 'Auberge
Elysee.'" His wife says that he under
stood his candidature to be essentially
one Of pacificatiOn. Nine. Sadi-CarnOt
is said to be active, clever and admir-
ably fitted 10 make the ElySee palace a
social center. Her garden parties and
soirees danSantes at the ministry of
finance have always been very success
full. NJ. Grevy. in an interview to-day
with the new president, expressed the
hope that NJ. Sadi-CarnOt would be hap
pier
N THE ELYSEE PALACE
than he himself had been, and would
not be as glad to leave it when the time
came for him to leave. NJ. Grevy bOasted
that he slept eight hours on a stretch
last Friday night, and said that he had
not had that pleasure for six weeks pre-
ViouSly. NJ. Sadi-CarnOt is Off
cially a Catholic. but really a
deiSt and spiritualist. accepting the
views Of his friend, Jean Reynaud.
NJ. Flourins, minister Of foreign affairs.
to-day received the German, Russian
and Austrian ambassadors, each OF
whom expressed cordial approval of the
amicable settlement Of the crisis. The
central revolutionary committee has is
sued a notice thanking the Republicans
of Paris for having defeated NJ. Ferry
and thus saved the republic from coup
d'etat
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
The Journal des Debats SAYS: 1.-The
whole country will hail the result of the
presidential election with feeling OF
RELIEF that satisfies the need of tranquil
lity SO strongly felt during the past few
days" The Evenement and DiX-Neu-
vieme Steele hope that the union
established over the name OF NJ. Sadi-
Carnot may not prove the union of a
day only, doomed to perish in food of
parliamentary intrigues of ambition.
The Soleil repudiateS the idea of Re
publican concentration, and says that
each party sustained a defeat. Many
papers praise the patriotic conduct Of
NJ. Ferry and NJ. de Freycinet.
FOREIGN OPINIONS.
IONnON. Dec. 1.-The press. in com
menting on the events Of Yesterday in
Paris. are almost unanimous i'll their
condemnation of NJ. Grevy's hesitancy,
and their expression of belief that any
further delay on his part would have
caused an uprising in the French
capital. The Observer. in Il long
and carefully considered article
on the subject. says it IS impossible for
the most. indulgent critic not to feel
that the closing Incidents Of NJ. Grevy's
career were just. ami that the course
adopted, not by his enemies alone. but
by all parties, was the cHly one that
could have resulted adHaI:ageousiy to
the republic ard consequently to the
people.
BERLIN. Dee 4-1he Post predicts
that in the spring both the Right and